For a few months now you can put your favourite videos up on your ESL profile. Over 32,000 videos are already online. From now below each video you'll find a direct link to this video and an embedded code so you can easily share your videos on other web sites or on your blog.

The ESL Website hast to handle an enormous run of users every day. More than 780.000 users play, talk, up- and download on the page - often more than 20.000 at the same time. Meanwhile a huge server structure has been built to manage these claims. I want to introduce the structure "behind the ESL" and explain it a little further.

Last Friday the German ESL Pro Series team n!faculty shows an unbelievable bomb defuse at the first Intel Friday Night Game in Frankfurt against hoorai. More than 1,200 spectators were live in the location and did not get what happened. faculty build a five player tower on the lower bombspot of de_nuke and defused the bomb through the ceiling. Check out this great video.

You haven't heard a lot from ESL Wire in the last few weeks, so it is time to give you an insight into the latest progress. Of course a lot of work has been done ESL Wire in general and a lot of new features implemented. We want to say "thank you" to the more than 600 beta testers who have given us a lot of valuable feedback on the project.

Not so long ago we beat Planet3dnow in our first Spinhenge@Home Race. Now we take have moved on to a new challenge: We have been invited to the "WCG Bunny Race" at the "World Community Grid". Well-known Distributed Computing Teams from all around the world participate in the race and we, of course, accept the challenge. This race will be a lot harder than the last one so we need every bit of your PC power!

Due to the installation of new switches and new SAN-devices the ESL website will be unavailable for some time during the night from Wednesday to Thursday. The downtime is scheduled from Wednesday the 20.2. to Thursday 21.2. between 00:30 o'clock and 03:00 o'clock in the morning. The page should be even more stable and faster than before afterwards.

The national and international qualifier for most ESL Major Series Season II games have already been started, today it is time to present you the qualification details for the Enemy Territory tournament. The Enemy Territory ESL Major Series powered by ASUS features a prize money of 1.000 € and will see Europe's best ET teams live in action. Read on for further details on ET's most important online tournament in 2008.

Think your team is the best in Europe? Prove it. Qualifiers for the second season of the ESL Major Series are underway or in preparation. Find out more about how you can qualify and have the chance to win some of the €14.000 prize money plus hardware prizes.

ESL has a new partner in Croatia! With Croatian Cyber League we proudly present a new strong partner in Croatia. With their support the ESL section will be build up and an ESL Pro Series is on it's way. With Croatian Cyber League, eSports in Croatia will rise to a new level.

After many weeks of stable and fast website availability we had some performance problems in the last couple of weeks that resulted in downtime of the website. As always we have a compensation for all ESL Premium users in form of two Premium Days for free!